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Perhaps it is just a case of, sometimes an ugly thing happens that doesn't have any great meaning in the good or ill of society -- it's just a bad thing, that happened. It's an isolated incident.

Uh oh. I think I'm channeling.:-)
Yours,
Issodhos

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It just gets worse

The attacker must be mentally ill.

Iss, you could be channeling, except statistics show that the events discussed in the thread I referred to are not isolated, but part of an ongoing pattern.

So far as I know, there is no growing trend of bus stabbings.

I was shocked when I heard this story on the news last Thursday. First of all, in Canada?!

...and why were the fellow passengers so passive?

Doesn't the bus driver have a role to ensure the safety of his/her passengers?

If anyone should be carrying a concealed weapon - it should have been the bus driver.

So far as I know, stabbings and other attacks are not limited to buses, nor are they isolated, nor is defense against such attacks limited to bus riders, nor is this conversation.:-)
Yours,
Issodhos

Why not Canada? They are a violent people. They club itty-bitty baby seals to death and drink bad beer.:-)



They were not passive. Indeed, they were very energetic in deserting the passenger being attacked -- and they drink bad beer.


Yes. Her role is to keep the bus on the road, get to where she is going, and not drink bad beer -- or even good beer, that is to say, imported beer.


Why. She is not even allowed to drink beer.:-)
Yours,
Issodhos

Iss, I respectfully suggest that when you channel me, you channel me in context and with full regard to the topic. Else, please leave my astral plane alone, if you please.

or hungry i'msorryi'msorryi'msorry

Martha!! Fanning self to hide the grin!!


Actually, he is mentally ill. No one in their right mind would do something like this. I see no point in attempting to apply security measures on Greyhound buses in Canada in the same fashion you have applied Homeland Security everywhere. It is very rare that a person experiences a psychotic break, and I see no need to spend vast sums of money on security "...just in case....", nor do I see any reason to allow gun ownership in Canada, despite years of reading your rationales for gun ownership, for someone who has gone right off the deep end.

The part of Manitoba the bus was traveling through is as isolated as any part of the American Plains. The Greyhound is used as a bus might be in the city to drive from one spot to another on the Prairies. From the little bit of attention I paid to this, the bus was carrying mostly young people, children and elderly people. So don't heap scorn on those you know little of.